Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) provide insights into how products are made, what they’re made from, and where they’re manufactured. PCFs also reveal economic risks, like supplier exposure to volatile raw material prices. Regulatory requirements for PCF disclosure are accelerating. A portfolio-level view on PCFs allows forward-thinking companies to tackle holistically strategy, capital planning, risk management and compliance.

You can get a solid PCF estimate from as little as a 1–2 sentence product description.

Depending on product complexity, our estimates typically fall within 30% of a full LCA result — an assessment that normally takes 3–5 months. Across a diverse portfolio, we can reliably identify the largest and smallest GHG contributors. We validate our results by comparing them to published footprint data (which we don’t use for training).

First, Product Carbon Footprints help prioritize efforts (e.g., due to per-unit emissions, adjusted for purchase volume). Second, our interactive tool allows companies to quickly survey current and potential suppliers to understand ongoing and planned decarbonization actions. Responses can form the basis for competitive negotiations.

We give companies visibility into cost and emissions drivers that are normally hard to measure — like material choices and manufacturing methods. Better visibility often reveals emission reduction opportunities that also save money — for example, swapping in a lower-carbon material at equal or lower cost.

Our methodology aligns with the Pathfinder Framework (v3.0) by WBCSD, the leading standard for product carbon footprints.